Maneuver Warfare Collection
According to studies as early as 1969 and as recently at 2012, only 10 to 30 percent of the population retains information from a lecture and can apply that information.3 As an example, students routinely get in the habit of memorizing information for the test but consistently fail to apply and
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The Marine Corps' ACE, operating in a combat zone under JFACC control, cannot escape the gravitational pull of this black hole. Unfortunately, Marine Corps maneuver warfare doctrine of decentralized decision making is rapidly discarded under such rules. Request priority is the product of a formula
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Since the last revision of Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication 1 (MCDP 1), Warfighting 17 years ago, the Marine Corps' fighting philosophy has proven itself time and again. [...]the actions after tactical victory is achieved determine strategic effects.
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The Naval Audit Service Report on the Marine Corps' urgent universal needs process (28 September 2007) eventually led to a new Marine Corps order on urgent needs, forcing Quantico bureaucrats to apply at least some maneuver warfare principles to their areas of responsibility. With OIF at an end and
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[...]of an aggressive doctrinal reformation, changes in warfighting concepts soon led to transformations in equipment, manpower, and training.24 Although initially controversial, FM 100-5 was the result of an intellectual rediscovery that promoted the concept of active defense to counter potential
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Our Commandant and his generals are right: We have a behavioral problem within the Corps. The Marine Corps badly needs an awakening—perhaps just not the one our generals envision. The Corps needs to enforce its standards, but appears to be neglecting its most advantageous and most decisive one:
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Marine Corps Doctrinal / B /m Publication 1, WarfightJ J ing (MCDP1), authoriJL. v JL. tatively states that "the military profession is a thinking profession," yet a frequent topic of discussion in the pages of the Marine Corps Gazette is the difficulty of developing critical thinking skills in
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The Marine Corps is acquiring both the F-35B vertical/short takeoff and landing (V/STOL) variant and the F-35C carrier variant. Because the F-35 is still conducting both developmental and operational test and evaluation, we do not yet know all of its characteristics. There are not many times in
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Mai John F. Schmitt, the author of MC DP 1, considered Ender's Game such a good study of leadership and tactics that he taught the book during lectures at the Marine Corps University in Quantico. According to MCDP 1, "orienting on the enemy" is fundamental to maneuver warfare by focusing our
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[...]it falls upon the training institution, be it school or unit, to determine when such an exercise would meet its training objectives. [...]it follows that in the free play exercise the goal is not necessarily to mimic any particular enemy or style of maneuver.
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According to Jim Dorschner: Operation CHROMITE did not introduce any fundamentally new aspects to the art of war. According to Heinl: Inchon produced 32 foot tides twice a day . . . the tidal currents rarely dropped below three knots and, in the main channel, could reach up to 7-8 knots, which was
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